The Avengers, searching for a missing doctor who might be the only chance to save the life of The Wasp [SPOILER ALERT: She lived], stumbled across a base of alien fugitives in the Arctic wastes:
No, no, not that, this:
Anyway, it turns out the Kallusians are being pursued by an evil galactic empire that is sparing no cost to find them:
No, no, I mean this:
And the evil aliens send a bunch of probes to explore various planets to see if the Kallusians are there:
No, no, I meant this:
And the probes explore the icy wastes:
No, that's wrong...why does this keep happening? I meant this:
Well, the probe finds a rebel relay station and destroys it:
No, not at all like that--like this:
Fortunately, one good guy is left, and he takes out the probe and alerts his people:
Sigh...no, like this:
In the comic, we don't see this guys final fate, but it's probably something like this:
Well, it seems pretty obvious to me that Stan Lee (plot), Paul Laiken & Larry Lieber (script), Jack Kirby (layouts), Don Heck (pencils) and Chic Stone (inks) deliberately and completely ripped off The Empire Strike Back for their Avengers comic book!!
I think that whoever owns Star Wars should sue the living heck (sorry, Don) out of whoever owns Marvel and the Avengers...oh, wait. Never mind.
Oh, clever stuff. And I'm glad you namechecked the film, I was assuming Battlestar Galactica (not a Star Wars fan).
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